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Hardening HashiCorp Vault with load balancing for always-on security
In a production environment, Vault downtime isn't just a security risk — it’s a total operational hard-stop...
Oliver Warren
The easiest way to reduce downtime — avoid a single point of failure
We get a lot of customers asking to buy a single load balancer. Understandably. One is cheaper than two. But here's why you might want a pair...
High Availability
Jake Borman
RSNA 2021 - this year's innovation: tailored high availability
Fast forward to a post-Covid-world (if we can call it that) and in many ways the pandemic has helped us all go back to basics and appreciate what’s important in life...
High Availability
Healthcare
Events
Zia Paul-Birabi
Why does high availability matter?
If your applications are mission-critical, then high availability is a key risk management play worth investing in...
High Availability
Seamus Toth
What can we learn from the recent Facebook outage?
On the 4th October 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also Instagram and WhatsApp...
High Availability
Security
Oliver Warren
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability?
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done...
High Availability
Comparisons
Rob Cooper
Are the Microsoft apps you depend on dependable enough?! Load balancing for seamless service delivery
Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable...
Microsoft
High Availability
Doc Ballje
Hold on, printers need load balancing too?
It really boils down to what you are printing, the volume of print jobs, and often the application it comes from...
Print
High Availability
Malcolm Turnbull
Multi-application verus dedicated load balancing – which approach is best?
With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?..
Comparisons
High Availability
Richard Halcrow
How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization
There’s one constant when it comes to downtime: whether the outage is expected or not, without access to systems or applications, your organization will probably experience some sort of pain...
High Availability
Aaron West
Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers
Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...
GSLB
High Availability
AWS / Azure / GCP
Rosalind Bootle
Ensuring high availability of a Microsoft Exchange environment for a leading cloud provider
Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Microsoft
High Availability
Himakshi Goswami
Why use a reverse proxy?
For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...
Performance
High Availability
Layer 7